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A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition o…

Good against the rickets.

To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.

A genus of insects including the common crickets.

Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets.

Affected with rickets.

A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.

uses lameness. -- Sand cricket (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large terrestrial crickets of the genus Stenophelmatus and allied genera, native of the sandy plains of the Western United States. -- Sand cusk (Zoöl.), any ophidiod fish. See Illust. under Ophidiod. -- Sand dab (Zoöl.), a small American flounder…

cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech. I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. Shak. And scream thyself as none e'er screamed before. Pope.

a human being or of a bird, insect, etc. "That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets." Hawthorne.

n hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.